Internship report by Ms. Win - Global Communication Report #7
December 20, 2022
Global Communication Report #7
Our Graduate Schools of Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Medicine participates in the World-leading Innovative & Smart Education (WISE) program. The special curriculum in our WISE Program includes a variety of internships abroad. Graduate students in the program stay at international organizations, research institutes, and companies to engage in professional internships.
Hokkaido University WISE Program for One Health Frontier Graduate School of Excellence
https://onehealth.vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp/
In this issue, Ms. Shwe Yee Win, a third-year graduate student in our laboratory, reports on her internship activities in the Traning Program of Capacity Building of ASEAN Biotechnology Researchers for Livestock Resiliency and Sustainability.
Capacity Building of ASEAN Biotechnology Researchers for Livestock Resiliency and Sustainability
Graduate School of Infectious Diseases and Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University is contributing to the promotion of One Health by aiming to produce resources for favoring the science and biological research in animal, human and environmental health to maintain the ecosystem. Underlining this, I was kindly allowed to participate in the training program on the Capacity Building of ASEAN Biotechnology Researchers for Livestock Resiliency and Sustainability at the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), Philippines, for my internship. Under the support of the World-leading Innovative & Smart Education (WISE) and Japan-ASEAN collaboration, it was a great experience for my contribution to One Health and my future career.
PCC is a lead agency for improving genetics and livestock production of water buffalo (carabao) in the Philippines and is also contributing to research on infectious diseases of animals. Dr. Claro N. Mingala, one of the alumni of our lab as well as a lead researcher at the PCC, and Dr. Satoru Konnai, a professor of our lab, have a very strong research collaboration for tick and tick-borne diseases and other infectious diseases of animals for a long time. Dr. Mingala hosted this training program, and Dr. Konnai was invited to this program as an lecturer.
During one month of intensive training, I participated in the detection of Trypanosomiasis and Leptospirosis in water buffalo. These two diseases are circulating and threatening livestock production in the Philippines and some ASEAN countries. During the training period, a participant from Indonesia and I wrote collaborative research and budget proposals for Mycobacterium avian paratuberculosis (MAP) to cover the ASEAN region. Throughout, I joined many seminars that are very useful and includes applicable information for developing countries. This was also a great chance to make a network for future research collaboration in the ASEAN countries. Indeed, this was a great experience for me. In this internship, there is a lot of positive impact on my future work such as the extension of my research interest to livestock.
Philippine Carabao Center (PCC)
Capacity Building of ASEAN Biotechnology Researchers for Livestock Resiliency and Sustainability
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